OSCOM's Wechner is One of CMS Leaders to Watch in 2004

Lenya is chugging along, but Wechner’s more important work, perhaps, has come in the form of evangelizing open-source CMS solutions more generally. He has been an effective and articulate spokesperson for the Open Source Content Management association, OSCOM, that Wechner co-founded with several other CMS project leaders…

The GNOME desktop project from which Midgard also gets a bunch of libraries is now choosing a CMS for its website.

Decoupled Content Management

Decoupled Content Management is a movement to bring clean separation of concerns into CMSs. With it, Content Management Systems can focus better on their core functionalities, and get the missing pieces through code-sharing and collaboration.

For me, the decoupled CMS story began in the OSCOM era of early 2000s, and culminated in the still-popular Decoupling Content Management article I wrote in 2011. The tools mentioned there — Create.js, VIE, and PHPCR — have since reached quite a nice level of adoption in mainstream CMSs.